It can take thousands, or even millions, of people to popularize something: a game, a hairstyle, a style of music. But unfortunately, it can all be changed in an instant, as it only takes one bad apple to turn something from fun and exciting to inappropriate (or even illegal).
One curious Reddit user recently asked others to share some of the things that one person managed to ruin for everyone else, so you’ll find their most relatable responses below. Enjoy reminiscing about "the good old days" before these things were tainted, and be sure to upvote everything you wish was still the same today!
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The female body image, by the Kardashians. Yes, I consider them all one person, since they all seem to have been built by the same plastic surgeon. Millions of girls and women worldwide seem to think that surgery, teams of hairdressers, nail and make-up artists, personal stylists, shapewear, Instagram filters and photoshop make them real women. That whoie family should be cancelled, instead they're billionnaires. Sign of the times ..
This has nothing to do with being American, or America itself. They are just trash, plain and simple.
Load More Replies...They have "paid paparazzi" too... It is my personnal opinion, but... I don't see any beauty in these people. Arrogant, dumb, look artificial, sell expensive produits because they've put their name on it. Please, these people are not a goal to reach... Extreme beauty should be not your only and main fous in your live. It all fake. Tbh I deleted instagram because I felt like trash and ugly AF. NOW I feel way better
I can see the physical beauty (they’ve all paid a lot of money to make themselves look conventionally attractive, which they are to a bit of a weird extreme) but the lack of anything meaningful or with any depth behind it really makes the physical beauty seem cheap and shallow. I do have to say I appreciate Kim’s intentions and efforts with helping wrongfully incarcerated people though, that’s a surprisingly cool move even though she hasn’t done much yet (she’s still studying. Don’t judge me for knowing that lol I get it from the TV at work). Congrats on deleting Instagram, I did the same recently so I know how good it feels 😊
Load More Replies...Before the Kardashians, it was Paris Hilton, before that it was someone else... and it's never just the one. It's many women and how instagram and TV and such "rewards" them. And it's starting to be the same for men more and more as well. This is a long standing problem and certainly not the Kardahians. Hell, this started before they were born! As to it being "American"... no, it's far bigger than that. It get's associated with them more as their cultural exports (i.e. TV) are larger than most countries, but let's not pretend it's all them.
I came here to write exactly the same comment Doug, well said!
Load More Replies...I keep reading about these people and I still have no idea what on earth they do or how the hell they got rich.
I know they're on TV for....some reason. And yeah they're pretty, but not exactly OMG STOP THE EARTH THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HUMAN EVER. I understand some people wanting that look, but I don't understand how the entire influencer demographic seem to shoot for it.
Load More Replies...Before them it was playboy bunnies. Not a new thing, just a new face on the idol.
Playboy Bunnies are UN Ambassadors compared to those plastic media whores.
Load More Replies...It's a trend, it will disappear at one stage. At least they normalised the fact that having curves is normal, contrary to the ultra skinny 'you can see my bones' Paris Hilton L.A clique of the 2000s.
Tipping. Businesses are pushing their customers to tip because they don’t want to pay their employees fair wages.
I was buying a product on line. It was like a mini fan. Got to the payment page and it asked for tips for the workers. I was paying shipping and handling already. I sat and looked and thought about it. And then canceled everything. That's BS.
When I was a kid, a tip was 15% for good service, more for great service (or you were feeling generous), less if the service wasn't good. Sometime in the early 2000s, I started hearing "20%" more often, until it became the standard. Now, people say "25%!" or even "30%" tip. When I ask why this has changed, people say "Well, the cost of living is going up, and meals are getting more expensive, so tips have to increase too." Listen, I'm ALL for paying working people a fair wage, and I'm ALL for giving good tips ... but that's not really how percents work. If I have a $25 meal in 1990, and leave a 15% tip, that tip should be $3.75. If I have a $40 meal in 2023, and leave a 15% tip, that tip should be $6. See, as the price of food increases, the tip increases, because it's a percent. Again, I'm not against giving a higher tip ... if that's the custom. Personally, I'd rather the USA abandon its tip system and just pay better wages. But ... learn math ...
Yes, "ONE PERSON" spoiled tipping for everyone. This certainly doesn't fit the post's title, and I was desperately hoping for ONE article on here that didn't get into an echo chamber of tipping culture comments. Maybe bathroom stall doors will show up later in the list?
Also, tipping expectations are spreading into industries other than food service. I went to a farm market, brought my items to the register to be checked out and there was a f*****g tip jar at checkout. If you run a business, pay your people decent wages, or don't run a damn business!
I just had my driveway repaved and I am not kidding when I tell you that they had a tip request when I paid my invoice online. Asking for up to $800 extra when I paid well over $5K for the work to be done! I was appalled.
Load More Replies...American here, and I have no problem tipping for quality service, a good attitude and a good experience. It's a courtesy and an act of goodwill more than it would ever be out of guilt or sympathy against wages. You want to make more money than a server? Don't be a server. Only thing I never tip on is to-go orders. I've paid for my food, used my gas and time to pick it up, you've been paid to have it ready for me to do so, end of story.
Twitter, by Elon Musk. Pretty basic, I know but geez. This man's just an arrogant child with waay to much money.
There were better ways to burn $40B than allowing it to be spent by an apartheid trust fund baby.
branding something as 'X', yeh, that's not supervillain behaviour at all...
No, it is not. It is just plain stupid behaviour, that is all.
Load More Replies...Agreed about twitter. And I don't particularly like the guy. But "just an arrogant child" is a dumb comment. He radically changed online payments, space travel and global access to internet (a major helper for the Ukraine right now), and in pushing green technologies (he not only made e-vehicles cool, but allows his competitors to use every tesla patent for free). Arrogant, yep. Would I want to meet him. Nope. But let's try to recognize people can be both good and bad at the same time. Life isn't binary!
I totally agree with what you're saying about adopting more balanced perspectives, but I also feel like Musk would be yeeted down the "bad egg" chute at the W***y Wonka's Factory at this moment in history. Haha
Load More Replies...You have to call it X now, the everything app. Or something. So much name recognition worth billions wiped away in one arrogant swoop.
Can we still call them tweets if they are not on twitter ?
Load More Replies...I just hope it happens before he fills the space with trash. How the space agencies allow him to play still baffles me.
Load More Replies...I am waiting anxiously for the first tweet on this happening.
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Vaccines by Andrew Wakefield. Thanks to that a*s hat we have way too many antivax idiots.
And he was one of the people that invalidated his own statements. But by that time, the damage was done...
And initially he wasn't actually anti-vax, he just advocated for separate injections instead of the combined MMR. The reasons for this are... interesting (short version: money). I highly recommend watching hbomberguy's YouTube documentary about the whole thing.
Load More Replies...What really pisses me off is that the reason he claimed the MMR vaccine didn't work, was because he was trying to sell his own vaccine.
He screwed up research into Crohn's disease for years, Wakefield was actually a gastroenterologist and claimed that Crohn's was also caused by the MMR vaccine.
I know their stupidity affects us all, but I am all for dumb asses dying off.
Antivax or not,, we;re all humans. Personally I don't find humor in someone elses death.
Load More Replies...You wouldn't believe the nasty things the antivax people say when I ask them how was I vaxxed before I was born.
Most people don't realize that MMR is for three different viruses. in 2019 there was a measles outbreak in NYC in an unvaccinated Jewish population. It started when someone returned from Israel who had an active case. There were some hospitalizations and it cost the city $8.4 million. At that same time there was an outbreak in Samoa. A largely unvaccinated population. There were 5700 cases and 83 deaths, mostly children. I was born in 1943. A girl down the street died of measles. I caught rubella in college right before summer break. The disease was nothing but I probably exposed a dozen kids while working that summer at a day camp. Some of them probably exposed their mothers. As medical students we saw "rubella babies" who were deaf, and mentally and physically disabled because their mother got rubella during early pregnancy. The MMR vaccine has been used for 50 years and is very safe and effective.
I hate to be dark but, as a gymnastics coach: people like Larry Nassar and my own coach
As a gymnastics coach myself, I have to be extremely careful how I touch a kid in a sport where I have to….pick them up and move their body around and stuff. And obviously, I’d never purposefully put my hand in an inappropriate spot, but if I accidentally do while saving a kid from falling or something I have to profusely apologize and feel anxious. 99% of the time, the kid doesn’t even notice I grabbed them or something. Or, they don’t care because they’re happy I saved them from snapping their neck.
Some gyms ban coaches from giving a kid a hug and whatnot. We have strict rules in the gymnastics world where two or more adults have to be with a kid if they are alone in the gym. Which hey, I support. When I train male coaches, I tell them to be extra careful since they are more likely to get accused. Groomers gonna groom, but if a guy accidentally brushes a girl’s boob when he spots her, it shouldn’t be world ending. With the abusers that people know of primarily being men, male coaches are watched like hawks. I can get away with a gaggle of little four year olds tackling me and laying on me for a group hug. A male coach has to be veeeery careful.
But, it’s sad it has to be like that. I wish I could text a kid myself, set up a private lesson, meet them at the gym alone, we work on stuff, their parent picks them up. That’s not reality. People should just…not be weird to kids. Adults should be respectful and not abuse their privilege and a child’s innocence.
Now, people have a terrible perception of the sport I love because of the abuse myself and others faced. And, I don’t blame them.
THIS! My mother taught first graders for 35 years and LOVED it. She came close to quitting when it was decided that teachers weren't allowed to hug or even touch a child who was hurt.
My husband and my son LOVE to innocently watch kids play. I had to sit them down and discuss not doing it when I am not around ( it seems to take the edge off if a woman is enjoying the antics as well). Sad that a few men, have made innocent fun no longer an option. ( also I have told Son to not have kids pet the dog when he is alone, ok if parents are around)
This sounds a bit like the dudes during the #metoo era complaining they were afraid to even ask a girl out. And then women responded that while he was afraid to be accused of stuff, women are afraid to be assaulted or killed. One is more important than the other. That said, some rules go into the hysterical territory of "pedos are everywhere" which is also not true.
saddly true, we are a family of cuddlers, we hug each other just to say hello, my father already told me that he did not cuddle baby or children to avoid any problems, while he makes the best hugs in the world !
That's called pedo hysteria and it's very convenient. You can impose any restriction, shielding yourself with safety of children, and anyone who opposes that is seen as literally an inhuman monster and should be put to prison for life or, better, executed. Pedo-hysterical people are equally as disgusting as actual molesters.
I'm all for being clear-eyed about what the actual risk is, and generally find that crime is greatly exaggerated by news sources and politicians for their own purposes (ratings/views and elections, respectively), but I've seen reports of these issues in the gymnastics world, and it was very concerning. The measures put in place to help address the risk in that area are very much needed. I do agree that many people seem to have difficulty discussing these issues without resorting to absolute condemnation of anyone wanting to discuss it in a reasonable way and not simply rush to grab a pitchfork. And I feel badly for the good people in gymnastics who have to worry about being suspected, but Nassar exposed an issue that was a problem bigger than him.
Load More Replies...It is sad. In the 60s authority figures (teachers, mr policeman etc) were almost never questioned and sometimes that was bad. These days virtually no one is trusted, especially if you are male. The pendulum swung too far in the other direction and any allegation (including false ones) is taken as fact until innocence is proven - often after ruining lives and ending careers. There needs to be a better balance but I'm not sure how to get there.
Youth Pastor here. Same. I can't meet alone with a kid, or even take a single kid to lunch, which really limits my ability to have conversations about things they might ask for counsel on, or even just to build a trusting relationship with them so I can do my job well. And I'm not even male.
The internet was ruined by whoever it was that invented pop-ups. And video ads, for that matter.
The guy that invented pop-up ads, has made a formal apology. He didn't mean to ruin the internet.
I'm curious, what did he think would happen when he invented POP-UP ads?
Load More Replies...No, the internet was ruined by companies trying to commercialise it. The ads and pop-ups are just a symptom of that.
tbh when I first started using the internet, it used to be this sort of free place, free of rules. That's not necessarily good when it comes to dark stuff, but for the main part it was like, a bubble that existed out of reality, you could listen to music, watch videos, watch entire series and movies, without ads, without copyright infringement, early social media had this sort of freedom too, and now things are the opposite. We live on the internet, and if a company, music artist, whatever isn't on it, it basically doesn't exist. It's so weird to think about the times when Facebook or Twitter didn't have ads but now all those practices are so normalized
Load More Replies...My first experience with WWW was in early 90s, on Unix text terminal, with a browser named "Lynx". I was astonished, so many possibilites, so much knowledge. IRCing was a fun thing to do, met many great people back then, so was ICQ couple of years later. Best word to describe internet back then is "uncontaminated". Even first social media was fun. Nowadays most of the popular internet is a cesspool. You have to wade very carefully to find sites worth visiting.
IRC was the greatest. I have IRL friends today that I made back in those chat rooms.
Load More Replies...I really enjoy when trying to read an article on my phone and the ads are on the top and bottom of the page and leave about 10% of the screen there in the middle
A s**t ton of symbols have had their meaning completely changed because some mentally ill dude got rejected by an art school.
I have got a St. Brigid's Cross in my house, which is an Irish house blessing symbol, but looks vaguely like a swastika. I live in Germany and feel that I have to explain to every guest what that symbol actually means...
Yeah? Imagine being a HINDU and explaining to the whole Western World that SWASTIKA and HAKENKREUZ are two different objects. Hitler spoiled it for too many civilizations it seems.
Load More Replies...So true. I'm in my 60s and my entire life an "okay" symbol was just an okay symbol. And in the navy it was also the hand shape for the bunghole game. Never ever ever did it have anything to do with "white supremacy". Now some boomer uses it and cancel culture says, "OMG! See! Old white supremacist!"
Is there a dark symbolism to a still life of flowers that I’m unaware of?
Then he wrote a book entitled "my struggle" like the whiney little bi*ch that he was.
# this was not a hashtag. It was known as the pound sign or sometimes the number sign.
I wanted to get a tattoo of a Nordic symbol. Crazy how many of them are associated with white supremacist grouls
Also a prominent Native American symbol. They are painted on various structures, buildings, etc throughout NM.
A s**t ton of EVERYTHING has had their meaning completely changed. You can't even pass someone a tissue without being way over analyzed by everyone and everything
You should read up on his early life story. Def tragic villian stereotype.
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Telemarketing. Owning a phone used to be a good thing, now almost every phone call is some shady insurance scam or panhandler looking for money.
Am fortunate to not have this problem, I'm in the legal "don't call me" register which helps a lot. I still used to get those "Microsoft" calls from India (the register only works for call within my country) but since I start telling them I work in IT Fraud management I seem to be off their list.
Same, I must be doing something right, because I never (technically) get telemarketing calls or spam texts. I've had the same number for literally decades and I haven't avoided giving it out. I just made sure it was on the "do not call" list (that telemarketers ignore anyway) and I use the basic spam filtering my phone provider offers. I'm sure if I bothered to check my text spam and blocked calls I'd see a lot there, but since I never get actively notified about it (silent blocking is awesome), I never notice it.
Load More Replies...Solved that problem. I have a phone that will not accept withheld numbers. Any number that calls me that is not on my list of known numbers are automatically answered with a message asking the caller to announce their name and where they are calling from. Somehow, I forgot to put my mums number on the known calls list. Did I get into trouble!
They never call me because a system on my phone that I don't know how it works, suppresses them all. They just don't get through. Ever.
I have a call-baring phone, worth it's weight in gold. After 5 years the waste calls have almost stopped, because words gets around .
I use an anti scam app and it saved my life. I guess there are many, but the one I use is... Can I mention it by name here? It starts with true and ends with caller
If I don't recognize the number I just let it go to voicemail. If it's something important, they'll leave a message.
The name "Karen".
well in their defense.. "Karen, in Canada" is a weird name
Load More Replies...THIS SO MUCH, My mom died in May 22, 2023 just a few months ago, she was named Karen, and we joked about it with her and that was ok, but it still hurt her to hear people call her that and Nasty nurses call her it cause she was dying from kidney failure and couldn't talk right or hurt too much to say sorry or please or thank you cause she was just crying in pain or her mouth locked up, she was the most sweetest "Karen" in the world
Right now, i would rather be named karen than marjorie, or donald, Funny how donald has not become synonymous with liar
The funny thing is that I know several people named Karen and they are all really cool people that would never act like they stereotype. My cousin Karen hates introducing herself now because it usually leads to dumb jokes she’s heard a million times now.
it's a dying name, just like how no one calls Richard 'D1ck' as a nickname since it's now a swear
"D**k" is not a swear word lol. It's slang for "penis".
Load More Replies...I'm a nice and reasonable person who happens to be named Karen and honestly, I would like my name back. It's so unfair to have your good name associated with such negativity. Have you noticed that the stories about these crazy incidents are never actually done women who are named Karen? Can't wait for this to go away.
My wife's name is Karin. Not even spelled the same but pronounced the same. She'd like her name back, if possible, but I don't think it'll ever happen.
A small town permanently cancelled Halloween because one kid was bullied and the mother lobbied and won. Turned out the kid was not bullied but was stealing other kid's candy and they fought back.
This is getting out of hand. In Georgia a teacher was fired after ONE mother complained about a book about acceptance the teacher read in class. The kicker is that she had bought the book at the school's book fair. I've seen other cases where one complaint got people fired. This is SO wrong.
Indeed.Tale as old as time but it never fails to frustrate and surprise.
Load More Replies...How does a town "permanently cancel" a holiday? Were there cops raiding houses looking for pumpkins and tiny candy bars?
Turns out the mother was the bully. I'm sure that kid is everyone's friend now.
Will forever be remembered as "that evil karen". Hope she is proud half the world hates her. Halloween is the best!!!
Something similar happened in the Netherlands. A traditional children's feast in December lost it's charm because one kid claimed to have been insulted in a discriminatory manner (or that's what his mother said). It blew up incredibly, up to a point that almost everything you say is considered discrimination
Sex ...by my kid.... wtf little dude. You can watch paw patrol for 2 hours straight but then I snatch yo momma in for a min and we can't even get through the warm up!?
I'm sorry, but I laughed. Good luck to you and your SO.
My son at the age of 6 or 7 asked me one time , ‘ Mom what’s a blocker ‘ , I froze, I said where did you hear that from? He said dad always says that to me
I don't get it. British thing? EDIT: oh, THAT blocker.
Load More Replies...They can sense anytime you're trying to do anything for yourself. No matter what it is, they have a spidey sense that kicks in and they come running.
I used to joke that my toilet seat must have had a alarm to alert the kids. For years as soon as I sat down I would hear "MAMA!" Also, snacks. Can't unwrap anything good without the vultures coming running.
Load More Replies...Doesn't work. Then they wanna change the channel. I've tried
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Guys on 9/11 ruined flying honestly. All the security means when u fly u have to get there super early and stand in lines all day.
I'm from the Netherlands and even I knew, as a teen, when I saw that happening on tv, that the world would not be the same after that.
I’m from the Netherlands, just got back from highschool, in time to watch Oprah (which in Holland started at 15:00 o clock) when I turned on the tv it showed the North tower with smoke around it. It just happened and underneath the bulletin read: small sportsplane crashes into the WTC. I thought: how coincidental it was a small plane would hit such a big building. And at that moment the second plane hit. I was 14 and completely in shock as I did not understand what was happening. I think my naivety got burned that day. I could not fathom anyone being so evil as to do such a horrendous thing!
Load More Replies...9/11 didn't just kill thousands and ruin flying. It was the start of the collapse of western liberal democracy. 9/11 exacerbated the polarization and militarization that was already happening. Also, keep in mind: anyone younger than their 30s doesn't know what 'normal' used to be.
I still think the terrorists won. We will never be the same. That day and the response to it changed so much. Crashing those planes and the aftermath killed tens of thousands of Americans and millions of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Militarized police, security theater at the airport, stricter financial controls, "Homeland Security", the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, Boston Marathon bombing all stem from 9/11. I hope hell is real and they are burning in it.
Load More Replies...And this lead to creation of ISIS too... You know that most of ISIS victim is moslem, right?? Those stupid rat neither read alquran nor have their mind straight. What in their mind is to get killed in stupid way
Plus, it is just security theater. It isn't very effective and they fail most tests
The worst part is, it's all theater. It doesn't actually do anything to make us safer. If it did it might actually be worth it.
And risk detainment, frisked, and possible ban because you brought an open tube of toothpaste...
Is not the toothpaste, is the possibility of disguising any other substance in a toothpaste tube and the hassle it would be to check manually or with dogs any single toothpaste tube.
Load More Replies...I remember in 1998 I flew to Egypt from San Francisco to visit my relatives. I was 16 years old. My mom, boyfriend (at the time) and his mom were all allowed to see me off at the gate, even without boarding passes. After 9/11 happened and the airport rules changed, I knew we were never going back to how it used to be. Side note: Not to take away from this tragedy at all… it was an absolute nightmare. RIP to the innocent lives that perished.
And what's most scary about it is that it's not actually effective, with something like a mind-blowing 95% failure rate at catching banned items.
I just want to be able to bring normal sized toiletries when I'm going on long trips!
The arsonists who set the Quebec forests ablaze, placing the North western hemisphere under smoke for a third of our summer..... Natural disaster caused a lot of the fires still going today but intentional sabotage didn't help.
The penalty for this should be classified as crimes against the planet. Highest penalty like life in prison. Am I over reacting?
I live in Quebec, the arsonist in question was thunderstorms, BP this is false information and it's easy to check.
I haven't checked, but what about the Nova Scotia fires? Is that cause known? That was what affected the Midwest and East Coast first.
Load More Replies...There are many words I would like to call them but I don’t want to get banned, there are also many different ways to die that I’d wish upon them but that’d probably get reported
That’s been dispelled. The fires weren’t set by arsonists. They happened because of a perfect storm of drought, heatwaves, and lightning strikes.
Thank you for posting. Honestly for a moment I believed the arson thing. I literally just thought all the smoke down here in Illinois was a completely natural event. Logical, right? I'm getting sick of people spinning things so we all have someone to hate. Isn't there enough hate?
Load More Replies...Or the idiot teenager in Oregon that lit firecrackers and threw them into the canyon to hear the echo. Set the entire Columbia River Gorge on fire, closed businesses, schools, shut down major interstate freeways, several towns and properties were evacuated, cost over $40M in damages and fire fighting services, private properties were destroyed, some businesses closed for good as this happened at the height of tourist season. Over 50k acres of forest burned in Oregon and Washington.
Starting a wildfire should be a capital crime at this point.
Some a$$hole set a car on fire in Washington state last year that ruined our air quality all summer--the Bolt Creek fire burned for 6 weeks. Also the kid who set off fireworks in 2017 and started the Eagle Creek fire. I wasn't in Seattle at that point, but apparently it was literally raining ash.
And the 2021 gender reveal—-during a drought—-that used a pyrotechnic device (ffs) to show the gender color, and started a major fire in the San Bernardino National Forest, known as the El Dorado Fire.
Load More Replies...I live in Chattanooga TN which is super far away from the Canada fires, yet there was an eerie looking haze for about two weeks from them. It seriously looked haunting. The air quality from the fire was shot here too. I can't imagine what the states closer went through. Let alone the Canadians themselves. I am so sorry for the people and animals that were effected.
American flag… every time I see one I automatically think the person flying it is racist. I think we all know who.
I fly my American flag proudly over my rainbow flag pronouncing things such as "black lives matter" and "no human is illegal." You shouldn't have to be a terrible person in order to love your country.
But because of terrible people, I have fallen out of love with my country. I can't trust her or depend on her anymore.
Load More Replies...I hope we can all recognize the wrongness of this sentiment and change our perspective. People shouldn't have to be afraid to fly their country's flag.
We shouldn't but after trump and how they was using it as a dog whistle it's crazy
Load More Replies...I stopped displaying the flag after Trump got elected. Things are way better than they were, but now I'm waiting until Trump is in jail. That will show me that America IS great again.
I moved to the Netherlands and people here fly their flags whenever there is a special day or event, and due to being a monarchy, there are lots of special days. In the beginning it felt a bit strange, but okay, of course my house is decorated, too, with the Dutch flag. However, when soccer is on, it still feels strange to have the German flag out... I live in a little village at the coast, we do have a WWII museum ...
Load More Replies...I just... can't stand the American flag anymore. I've seen too much atrocity done in its name over the last decade. I used to love and be proud of my country, but I've learned I cannot trust her.
could be worse, they could be flying the confederate flag. (though I find it funny they proudly fly that flag calling themselves winners and wolves and "liberals" sheep, yet.. they're the ones who got their asses handed to them during the civil war lmao)
I don't hate the flag but I dislike the folks using it for virtue signaling. "Look at me! I've got two huge flags flying from my pickup truck to show how patriotic I am!" All my life, most Americans like the USA (despite flaws) but do not see the need to wear / wave flags except maybe special holidays. It's like how most of us don't stomp on kittens but also don't feel the need to carry banners proclaiming that. It's just understood. And yes, the flag covered pickup is almost entirely a MAGA thing so that doesn't leave a good taste. TLDR: Not the flag - just the way some folks are currently using it.
And when they stole “my body, my choice” do they didn’t have to wear a mask but then quickly claimed that’s not how it works for women.
Load More Replies...I automatically assume anyone proudly displaying an American flag is part of the overzealous patriotic sort, usually white and conservative, bible humping, bigoted, and putting way too much importance on a piece of fabric. It makes me lose my respect for that person a little tbh. I know it's not accurate to all people but it feels like it.
The Cosby Show. Because of Cosby.
Does it make me a bad person that I can still enjoy it even knowing? I'll never stop loving that 70s show either. I know what they did is wrong but I still enjoy the shows. Hell I'm watching glee as we speak. If we give up every show that has an evil actor what's left to watch.
I feel for all of the other amazing actors from that show who now have to live with the stigma stuck in their history from it. Claire Huxtable was a huge idol of mine when I watched it and I still enjoy watching clips of just her character in her most memorable scenes.
The little bill show occurred after he drugged the women..
Load More Replies...We didn't know then, we didn't know when the Man from U.N.C.L.E. was on, we didn't know when he did his comedy shows and Jello ads, but we know now, and you're right. It does affect our perceptions of his career.
Not just the Cosby Show, also Fat Albert, Little Bill and huge part of my childhood. I have had "Wonderfulness", one of the best comedy albums of all time, on vinyl since I was a child and I can never play it again because the man who made it turned out to basically be a monster. So many memories tainted by that.
It sucks. He was one of my comedy heroes. Right up there with Carlin and Pryor. Chappelle is getting weird too and that bums me right the f**k out. I loved him, now he's a sociopath.
I'm p***ed about this too. And angry that the other actors on that show have lost a ton of income because of him.
He was a fantastic stand up comic, one of the best ever. Sadly, also a demonic scum bag.
The a*****e who poisoned Tylenol in the 1980s and made it acceptable to make everything, not even just medications, very tamper-proof, but also pretty damn user-proof if you have any dexterity limitations at all.
Making food and drugs tamper proof had always been a good idea, independently of specific events.
With limits. I have had to cut the top off of a bottle ( medicine, vitamins and bleach tablets ) .The medicine i forgot to ask for handicap bottle and i was too sick to go back.
Load More Replies...a guy was putting glass in baby food in the 1980s in the u.k. which led to the tamperproof lids (the pop ones)
hey guys! IDK if you knew this but most of those prescription med bottles you can turn the lid upside down and put it back on to screw it on/off easier if you have no kids/pets who could get it!
food stuff was also poisoned not just Tylenol.. that's why everything requires tamper evident labeling
It is a truism that sometimes children are the best people to ask to open a "child-proof" canister. I am not as dextrous as I used to be.
Tamper proof Bleach! I can never get those half circle plastic over foil things off
Just thinking out loud - how would one tamper with bleach? 🤔
Load More Replies...Looking at the comments below, I didn't know you could ask for a handicap bottle. You have weak hands that can't twist a top off and that's a big problem. A lot of us have that problem.
Gender reveals during fire season.
These should be banned in public places due to all the trash/debris they leave behind, or for public safety if fire works are involved, do it in your own house/backyard, so at least we all can get a good laugh watching America’s funniest videos
gender reveals at all. Unless it's the simple "this cake is blue or pink" on the inside. But when your gender reveal starts a forest fire, kills someone, or pollutes the water source for an entire town, you can go to hell and take your spawn with you because you are NOT fit to be parents >.>
Or when they use freaking ANIMALS. Dying doves and all that. Horrible
Load More Replies...During any season. A horrible idea, often causing damage to the environment.
Giving out free product when we are just going to throw it away anyway.
We used to do this at the end of the night, last few hours of the day if we had a lot of donuts or bread BUT because of certain people who use this as an opportunity to sue a business with the excuse of "They gave me spoiled food and i got sick" now it's not allowed and we have to put coffee grounds on everything we throw away.
Also the drug addicts who think it's funny to just throw it all over the parking lot too.
Also bathroom privileges. Since it's apparent that people don't know how to use one properly, we don't have to let the public use them and yes that includes your kids as well since you don't clean up after them.
My school just introduced passes that the teachers have that unlock the bathrooms during class. U literally have to get a pass from a teacher who forgets it half the time just to go to the bathroom bc some people decided to graffiti the walls and damage stuff etc…
It's a shame, isn't it? Some people ruin it for the rest of us and I've never figured out why they do it. I saw a picture of a beach that was heavily used, I think for a concert or a competition. With all the publicity, effort, and encouragement to recycle and throw your trash away properly, the after picture of that beach was horrifying. People just put their trash down and walked away. It was disgusting and so disappointing that people would do that.
Oh, yeah, potty privileges. We had a spate of vandalism in our men's room (c'mon guys, seriously?) so just that one was locked. When men would get upset that the women's room wasn't locked, I'd tell them it was because women don't smear s**t on the walls and stuff beer cans down the toilet.
Certain bathrooms were closed at my school for a while because people kept smoking weed in them. Bathroom usage should be a right, not a privilege.
I graduated from high school in 1961, There were no d***s or shooters. Students were allowed to smoke cigarettes on the concrete pad by the back door. This was called the f*g area. The school allowed this because they didn't want students smoking in the toilets.
Load More Replies...Particularly stupid as there has not been a single case of someone suing after taking food home and getting sick in Australia or America!
That's not one person. That's dealing with the general public. That's our society at large.
In the US donations to food pantries has been specifically protected since 1996 by the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (42 U.S. Code § 1791). Anyone (in the USA at least) who uses liability as an excuse to not donate food that they are otherwise throwing away is ignorant.
Not sure if its been said but Kanye ruined Kanye for everybody.
I find Kanye fascinating in a morbid kinda way. Like what a weird, sad little guy. I will admit I genuinely love a lot of his music, especially his older stuff as a longtime fan, but some of his music really hits differently these days. He honestly seems like a tortured soul - not in a romantic, poetic way, but in an unfortunate, problematic, weird sad racist kind of way. He went from one of my musical idols in the 2000s to someone whose name is now a joke in my circle of friends (“ok kanye” is our new “ok boomer”). It’s like watching the most interesting slow motion train wreck I’ve ever seen. I genuinely hope he gets the help he clearly needs, but also, he’s kind of just a d**k all on his own. (He also apparently refuses any medication for his mental health issues)
You should watch his documentary on Netflix. Sheds light on lots of things.
Load More Replies...I saw a t-shirt once which said "I love you as much as Kanye loves Kanye".
Judging by the rbf he is always sporting, maybe he just needs a colonic cleanse. A late friend used to tell another friend, "you'll never find someone if you don't get that I have to take a s**t look off your face". I think of that EVERY time I see a photo of that individual.
Load More Replies...Perhaps Kanye was never good to begin with and his popularity stemmed from peoples disturbing need to fit in and follow the crowd's opinion no matter how vile the subject?
Naw, some of his earlier music was pretty good. He wasn't nearly as horrible way back then.
Load More Replies...Right, just keep your dang mouth shut, also used to like Kid Rock and the saw pics of him in the White House with the umpa lumpa and that’s the end of that
Rock isn't that funny. He uses his routine as a portable therapy couch.
Load More Replies...Not for me. I don't think any less of him than I ever have. It was pretty low to begin with.
kanye has real mental health issues that likely require medication that he apparantly refuses to take...i feel sorry for kanye and hope he gets the help he so desparately needs
Red baseball caps.dishonourableaccount replied:"MAGA hats" became popular with his supporters and very unpopular with those who hated him.
Issue is, baseball caps are pretty popular and common to wear in a lot of places. Especially among sports fans. Teams like the Kansas City Chiefs, Washingtons Nats, and the Phillies all have red caps that-- at first glance-- looked like MAGA hats. So people felt self-conscious, not wanting to be mistaken for supporters.
My husband has a Maga hat. He can't figure out why the brim always looks flat and there seems to be shoe marks on it.
Do you know that socks sometimes dissapear mysteriously from washing machine? I heard it happens with MAGA hats too. Not that I am suggesting anything.
Load More Replies...... I saw a red hat the other day and thought of maga immediately. I'm not in America.
You know what? YES MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! By sending trump to Mars!
St. Louis Cardinals. I can't even support my team without people thinking I'm a MAGAt and want to talk Trump.
Thank goodness I went to a game handing out the dark blue variant jerseys. I got a blue hat to go with it. Dodged a bullet there.
Load More Replies...Love the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm when he wears one so people will leave him alone.
One guy has a heart attack and the entire world is pressured, by him and other lobbyists, into changing their fast food menus from natural ingredients (beef tallow for fries for example) to artificial s**t to satisfy new requirements for "healthier fat free foods" when... it was never confirmed the guy had it because of fast food. It turns out most fat free foods are full of sugar and are HORRIBLE for you, and whole, fat inclusive foods are much healthier
The whole stigma on fat was a gaslighting scam by the sugar industry
And the natural fat they used to use was actually better for people than the partially hydrogenated, chemically altered s**t they switched to. Just leave well enough alone.
As I understand it, the beef tallow for the fries was not inspired by fat phobia, but by certain religions that objected to eating anything with beef. I know, odd because it was a burger restaurant, but they also served chicken and fish sandwiches. The beef tallow wasn't mentioned as an "ingredient" in the fries so many people weren't aware it was being used. (And I've seen YouTube videos where they replicated the old recipe and compared it to the new fry recipe, and the beef tallow version won every time.)
I read about this. Apparently some people who were Sikhs found MacDonald used beef flavor in their fries. One has to be very careful about fast food. I had one patient who broke out with hives after eating onion rings. It turns out they use the same oil to fry shrimp. In a research lab we had a Scot, a Jew, two Americans and a Sikh. one day Anil, the Sikh came n looking rather sheepish. We asked what the matter was. he answered :"My wife found the corned beef". At the end of summer the Jewish director had a picnic for us. He served shrimp, very not kosher. Oh well, it's his religion, not mine, so it didn't matter.
Load More Replies...Anyone else remember the travesty that was olestra? Those products disappeared fast
And it turns out that the hardened vegetable fats made them transfats that are 100 Xs worse for your arteries/heart
Go all natural or real food ingredients. Run away from artificial.
If I counted every damn time when I've red GLUCOSE FRUCTOSE SYRYP on food labels, i would probably go insane. As someone whois battling with insulin resistance, starving is safest thing for me...
The shoe bomber.
Editor's note: After “shoe bomber” Richard Reid's attempt to take down a flight from Paris to Miami in late 2001, footwear started coming off at security checkpoints.
But not in many places… Someone I knew who worked in airport security in Europe said you could always tell the Americans and Israelis in the queue because they would take their shoes off without being asked to (or needing to). So some countries are more worried about shoes than others, which seems strange.
In some European countries you only remove them when you are wearing heels or shoes with a quite thick sole
Load More Replies...When I worked for TSA (2012 to 2017, and happy to be out of that MAGAt infested job), and people complained about having to take their shoes off, I’d tell them they could thank the Shoe Bomber for that—-BUT to be grateful TSA didn’t decide to go with the Underwear Bomber instead. Got a laugh every single time, and made people a little less angry about taking their shoes off.
I want to state, if you have a reason for special footwear, like my aunt who is missing a toe and has a huge open and healing wound on her foot from diabetes THEY CAN NOT MAKE YOU TAKE IT OFF {its good cause she cant get them on and off with out someone helping her put them on for an hour before}
I am lame ( yes i use that word ). I was going through security and explained i would take a very long time to get my shoes off then back on. They let me keep them on but swabbed them ( for traces of explosives?) . Much faster. Also, in usa, i think if you are over seventy, they dont make you take them off.
Load More Replies...We all have to disrobe at airport because one dude failed at the airport, but the USA won't institute strict gun laws after hundreds of children have been slaughtered.
Back in the middle ages when I was a child in Detroit, the electric company gave out free light bulbs. You kept the burnt out ones in a bag, and when it was full, Dad would take it to Detroit Edison and exchange them for free ones. Then some guy who owned a store (I remembered it as a pharmacy) sued because he couldn't sell light bulbs and that was the end of free light bulbs.
The free lightbulbs get a mention here (along with more than you ever thought you wanted to know about lightbulbs in general) https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY
Also, lightbulbs used to last a looooooooooong time. Years, in fact. Then greed ruined it...
Load More Replies...I Illinois you can still get free energy-efficient bulbs. Contact LIHEAP.
I remember this, mom would not allow us to toss out a burnt out bulb. She kept a bag (paper of course, in those days) and rode a bus to redeem them for new ones.
We often get people coming door to door to switch your bulbs to more energy efficient ones for free (in Australia). They stopped the practice for a while, when it was found improperly installed ones were catching on fire, but then brought it back, as new bulbs and accreditation were brought in.
WOW! I tried to explain just this to my friends that it was a real happening. They just laughed. I was at the point when I almost didn't believe it anymore, myself. BUT, I do remember exchanging the burnt out ones for free new ones at the local store of our electric company. The store was next to the movie house, so we would make the exchange just before going to the movies. Also, would do it before going to my Aunt's restaurant across the street. THANKS for restoring my sanity!
I'm really going to miss incandescent bulbs. Screw these sh***y bulbs we're now forced to use.
Your last meal before execution in the U.S. used to be whatever you wanted, until one guy ordered an 18 course feast and didn't touch it. After he was executed a law was passed saying all death row prisoners' last meal would be the same as all the other prisoners.
F*ck, the guy was about to snuff it, and they made a big deal about the fact that he didn't touch his food? What A-holes...
right. Seems like he had no power anymore. Why not let him have this one pointless victory?
Load More Replies...Yes, that case was in Texas. Other states still have last meals.
Load More Replies...Imagine being the guy who was getting executed the next day after this dude 💀
Whoa. That's messed up. Imagine thinking, "Well, at least I'm getting a little crème brulée tomorrow." And then they say, "Nevermind. No dessert, just death."
Load More Replies...This one's not actually true. It is sometimes different in different states and prisons, though. Most of the restrictions put into place involve portion size, overall cost, and reasonable attainability (needs to be locally available). All of which are very reasonable, because they cut down on costs which are already ridiculous for someone on death row in the first place.
death penalty might be one of the things that probably ruin USA for lots of folks
This is different state-by-state. Only around half the states have the death penalty, which are generally republican majority states. There are federal laws and state laws.
Load More Replies...Damn, there goes my life's dream of committing some kind of crime that warrants the death penalty, because some "criminal" ruined it for the rest of us. I need my pearls and fainting couch.
Honestly though, you don't wind up on death row by being a model citizen. Chances are you are a monster. Why would they deserve a last meal?
When i was overnight stocking at walmart one of the rules was you can't have headphones. A lot of us did it anyway. We kept it low profile. Music loud enough only you can hear, only one earbud in so you can hear a customer or manager speak to you, we would run the wire under our clothes so you could pretty much only see the bit coming from your neck to your ear, color that matched/blended into our skintone. Management would just turn a blind eye to it. We hire some new guy. He starts rolling around with both earbuds in, music blaring, highlighter pink wires outside the shirt. We tried to mention to him he might wanna keep that low profile. He didnt listen. Less than a week later daytime management came through our shift and told us earbuds/earphones will not be tolerated. to top it off. that guy got fired like a week later. Heightened enforcement of the rule stayed in place.
We got monitoring software installed on our computers because some people were scrolling social media and napping instead of doing their job. One girl did very little...but she was caught multiple times napping in an empty cubicle or online shopping
At one job, I would sometimes hear snoring coming from one of the adjoining cubicles. Always made me laugh. That person was a new parent and got projects done on time.
Load More Replies...Yeah, management does that. They take the worst case/worst performer and then everyone has to follow the new rules because one person abused the system. Way to go management! You lazy son-of-a-guns. You could check out the rest of the group, if there's no problem, let them keep doing what they were doing. A little leeway/understanding in management would make a cohesive working unit and maybe some long-term employees.
Ugh that sucks. I used to be an online picker which basically means I would work from 4am picking up peoples shopping ready to be dispatched to the customer. They had no problem with us listening to music whilst shopping. One bud in, not too loud, and if a customer needs help, (the shop opened at 7.30), we could stop to help but they usually left us alone because we were timed when it came to shopping
The toothbrush mustache. Made famous by people like Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy, ruined forever.
Imagine how different history would be if Hitler had ruined some other facial hair configuration instead, like mutton-chop sideburns.
My greatuncle wore this mustache till the day he died some 20 years ago. All kids in the family called him uncle Hitler, which as you may imagine was frowned upon by all adults... especially since Adolf Hitler is not much liked here in Poland to put it mildly.
Changed so much that I didn't know it was called the toothbrush mustache. Always just called it the Hitler mustache.
That thing looks ridiculous, period. How people ever thought that it was a good look is beyond me.
This mustache style came about in WWI because you could have a mustache and still get a tight seal with your gas mask. Idk. Always found that interesting.
This is one of the clearest examples of, ONE person, ruining something for EVERYBODY.
This is the second Hitler post and I would like to say that he pretty much ruined everything.
Germany, i am British and lived there for 3 years and it’s an astonishing country but gets the worst reputation bc of an artistic thanos.
I'm equally confused by the Artistic Thanos reference. However having lived in Germany for a number of years, I can confirm it's a wonderful country!
Honestly theres probably more nazis in America than germany right now, germans don’t deserve the hate (im American)
In the Netherlands (that little country west of Germany...), there are still people that use derogatory words to describe German people. Like 'moffen'. It has been almost 80 years. I'm not trivializing the horrendous misery of the war but the perpetrators of those days are rarely the same people who are called those names.
I'll start by saying I'm an American Jew and I think Germany is one of the best countries in the world. Here's why: no other country as fine as much to acknowledge and educate on it's previous atrocities. I met a number of Germans while traveling in Europe and Asia and if it ever came up, they were all super knowledgeable and remorseful. Americans won't even acknowledge what happened to the native population or that the country way built on slave labor. Japan won't even acknowledge what it did in Korea and China. The list goes on and on and on.
Canadian here, but I find Germany fascinating. Such a horrible history, and yet when the orange buffoon was in office in the US, it was not uncommon for people here to perceive Angela Merkel (German chancellor at the time) to be perceived as the new leader of the free world. Their reputation now is pretty damn good I think... at least on this side of the pond.
Canadian as well. Yup. I concur with this sentiment.
Load More Replies...The guy who killed half the population of the entire universe? Really?
Load More Replies...Been to Germany myself many times and it is indeed an amazing country. I would move to Berlin in an instant if I could.
I was sent to Germany for work in 2005. As a Jewish LGBTQ+ woman that lost family in the Holocaust I was very troubled by the fact I had to go there. But once there, I learned how welcoming German people are to Jews and people of other faiths and backgrounds. It was wonderful to see all of the Holocaust memorials, Jewish district in Berlin, gay bars and clubs in various cities.. I loved it to so much I even tried to get my company to xfer me there
I think that most of us are over that by now. Not as in we don't care that Hitler did what he did but that we understand that Germany today is very different to what it was back then.
A kid in my high school got their nose broken and had a severe concussion because the guys would take dodgeball so seriously. They banned it my freshman year because multiple kids got hurt and this one guy would not chill tf out. We also stopped being allowed to play soccer because this guy hit a girl in the face so hard he broke her glasses, gave her a nose bleed and knocked her out. Basketball was almost banned because of the same guy. He got mad and chucked the ball.. right into my face. He was on the floor laughing and could barely even say sorry through his laughter. Even the kids that bullied me were like “dude wtf it’s not funny”. Dude had a huge ego from playing soccer for the high school team and obvious anger issues.
Awesome. Instead of banning this one kid from ball sports, the whole school doesn't get to play ball sports? That's weird.
"my kid will not read this book, therefor it will be my mission to ban it al over the state!" 😏
Load More Replies...Why are violent kids allowed around other kids like that in school? Like, what goes through the minds of schools where they see issues with kids being hurt by certain kids, routinely, and they just go "Oh, that boy is real rough with the other kids. Ah, well. Just let him play along with them."
In my school, on most any team, that behavior would have been corrected. By the team.
I'll second that. We policed our own (I was "corrected" once & never happened again).
Load More Replies...Again an example where the wrong culprit is named. In this case, the bully is not responsible for banning the spirts but again a school leadership who's unwilling to deal with bullies properly and try to get around banning a known troublemaker from the school or punish him because they don't want to deal with the parents making a fuss
Imho, schools should have other options than these sports, such as a cardio class or badminton or smth. Neither me nor my friends know how to play any of these sports(basketball, football etc) and I am scared to play them anyway because I'm very uncoordinated. And ngl, I don't think I'm the only one that would rather do cardio or pilates than play basketball
We could do weight room or run track instead of sports. While nice for uncoordinated people, i would have liked to have played baseball/ softball once in my life. Like, be tsught the game, not just " heres a glove, go do" and if you cant, go do sonething else.
Load More Replies...If thrown hard enough, those kickballs can really hurt you!
Load More Replies...Should have sent him home to his parents, banished from school forever.
The idea of a secure white collar jobs is ruined by Jack Welch, who first pioneered the practice of laying off masses of people just to buy company stock prices.
YES this MF forever destroyed job security, loyalty, longevity, and worst of all SINGLEHANDEDLY fueled the wage and resources gap & created 1%ers
Want to hear the word “socialist” used as a snarl-word? Advocate that government should see that business be conducted for the public good.
Jack Welch was worse than Chainsaw Al Dunlap (ruiner of Sunbeam). Welch managed to destroy the reputation of a beloved iconic brand, turn it into a sh*t financial entity and lay the groundwork for the type of corporate evil that still exists today. And what's worse is the University in the town where the headquarters USED to be named their business school after him. Just such a POS!
Why are singletons allowed to cause so much damage to the masses? Why?
At the time, he was held up as the ideal business model. Workers have seen our lives go downhill ever since.
My primary school removed the monkey bars after some kid called Ben fell from them and broke his arm. Thanks a lot, Ben.
What nonsense! Soon they'll force all the parents to permanently wrap their children in bubble wrap until they turn 18.
When they'll wrap themselves in bubble wrap. Kids can't even be kids anymore.
Load More Replies...Not like the 80s, when all that happened was you going to the school nurse, who would scrub your wounds with sulphuric acid (also known as iodine) and tell you not to be so stupid next time.
In my primary school all we'd be given was a paper towel. Those little blue paper towels were the "solution" to every wound, illness and ailment known to man in the eyes of my school's nurses. You could loose both of your legs and they'd probably just give you a wet paper towel and send you back to class 🤣
Load More Replies...Did he fall or jump? I remember playing on the monkey bars in 4th grade, so around 1970, and a kid telling me to get out of the way. He was standing at the very top, and said he was going to jump. Yep, he broke his arm. But the monkey bars stayed in place. His cast was like a badge of honor or some such s**t. Oh, and the playground was all blacktop too, and had seesaws, chin up bars, and those stand up merry go rounds too. Oh, and we rode our bikes without helmets and padding, and in summer we rode them barefoot because we were barefoot from the last day of school to the first, unless we were going somewhere we had to wear sandals. Stepped on many a bee. We survived just fine, though I have no idea how.
Again, not Ben's fault. Again, most likely a school not wanting to pay for making their equipment safe.
Even the safest equipment will see some accidents. My brother once broke a leg jumping down TWO steps on the bottom of the stairs. People just need to accept that accidents are a part of life.
Load More Replies...They removed the high monkey bar from my elementary school bc of one kid who broke their arm 🙄 but they didn't get new swings after they kept breaking and sending kids flying into the slide tower
Many of my favorite toy ended because a few couldn't use correctly. Parents were able to sue for their kids inability and all other had to lose out.
Sorry, that was a smart move. In the 1950s, I watched a kid fall off and had his head cracked open. Safety first.
The kid who jumped off of 7th floor of a building here in Turkey because he thought he was a Pokemon. They stopped airing the show because people thought it was "bad influence" on kids. And Pokemon was huge back when i was a kid so pretty much every kid back then was devastated.
He probably didn't just do that because he thought he was a pokemon. I think there were other things at play in that kid's head.
Or parents who didn’t teach him the difference between reality and fantasy. The first time I said something like “I want to fly like Superman”, I think I was like 3 or 4, and my parents said that would be cool, but that in real life people can’t just fly without a flying machine of some kind, like an airplane. They explained that if I tried to fly all by myself, I’d just get hurt. That’s parenting.
Load More Replies...Other kids do it thinking they're Superman, or another super-hero. A childhood friend of mine broke his arm jumping from à tree after watching Ripcord (yes, I'm that old lol). Some kids are over-imaginative and to them there's à blurred line between reality and fiction.
That's not on the kid. That's on authorities who prefer showy actionism over actually tackling problems. No one in their right mind could honestly believe it was the show who made him jump. It's much more likely that the safety nets for children in Turkey are bad and that's something legislation all around the globe is unwilling to tackle
In the usa we had kids try and fly when they watched superman, many broken bones from jumping off of roofs
I'm Gen X and remember when they threw a s**t fit about Beavis and Butthead, because some little idiots set some s**t on fire. Back then MTV was different and didn't pull stuff because a few parents complained. They also tried to get Ren and Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain and Daria pulled as well.
Sounds like the parents protesting the school board in my city to remove anime and all references to anime and manga because “it creates gender confusion in kids”. Fortunately the school trustees ignored their nonsense.
There was a coffee shop that everyone loved that did the thing where if you buy 8 drinks, you get the next one for free. For 2 years I went there religiously at least once a week. Then one day, they told us that the stamp cards were no longer good because someone had stolen the stamp and had been abusing it by stamping their own cards. I just didn't like the accusatory tone when they explained to us what happened, I felt like I lost something that I made an effort to earn (although only maybe 5/8th of one drink), and they were punishing the loyal customers. It was just terribly handled. I never went back after that. The once bustling coffee shop that everyone loved closed down 6 months later. Basically, they probably killed their business over one person who maybe got a few free drinks at most.
During our plague days, my favorite coffee shop had to stop those as well. Only card payments, no cash. Then they came up with an app. I can put money on the app and when they scan it, it gives me points (like the stamps towards a free drink). Now we get points based on the price of your purchase. Which is nice as well.
Kind of reminds me of the post on loopholes I read on BP yesterday. Loopholes people took advantage of, but were pretty much just sneaky thievery. People had no problem scamming free stuff from mom and pop stores, etc. And most people seemed to think it was ok to scam large companies like fast food joints, not realizing these are franchises, owned by real people, not megacorporations.
Ps, I forgive the literally starving college kids and parents trying to feed their kids.
Load More Replies...Loyalty cards that store the drink count, and give out the freebie when the correct number is reached. Make them something where the cardholder can make up their own secure password to use the card, or some other security measure. Either that, or go old school and have customers save their receipts and hand them in once they’ve reached the magic number. Should’ve kept the stamp in a secure place anyway, like on a lanyard around the shift manager’s neck or something. I don’t know the solution, I’m just spitballing here.
Remember the chick that licked all the ice cream in the store? Now we got a bunch of plastic s**t to cut through.
The plastic covering was there for some brands before she did her thing.
I actually caught someone doing that at an Albertson's in San Diego. Filmed her and emailed it to the store manager (my pic was much clearer than the store's CCTV). We were in the process of moving so I never did find out what happened. Hope she got arrested.
Ew, wtf? I’ve never heard of this till now, I’m assuming it was some stupid internet trend? What if someone bought that ice cream who had like, a weak immune system or something? (besides the fact that that’s just plain nasty, inconsiderate, and germy) I’m assuming they didn’t buy it afterwards.
Plastic. Companies producing it need to be responsible for it actually getting recycled. Choking out planet.
Plastic seal was already there, along with the locked lid. People just ripped the plastic strip and the seal inside, off before licking.
The name Adolf.
Until 1945, many people in Germany were called Adolf. Partly because it was a very common name, and partly because parents named their children Adolf as a reference. After 1945, suddenly no one was named Adolf anymore. Each used their middle name or, less commonly, the abbreviation "Adi" as a proper name
Most prominently Adolf "Adi" Dassler, the founder on adidas
Load More Replies...In fact in My Village, there is a Family who are the Landlords in 6th Generation and every Male in this Family have to named Adolf because of the Tradition. They also have a street named after it: Adolf-Straße. My Brother lives there.
While I dislike Adolf Hitler like any next person, I wouldn't call him idiot. Was he evil? Sure. Was he stupid? Not so much.
Load More Replies...i actually know of a guy in my grade named adolf. i dont know if he goes by that name or a different one tho
Someone installed an AC incorrectly in their window at my in-laws building. It ended up falling out and killing a 2 year old girl and now everyone is banned from using window AC's (in certain buildings, not all) (This was in Scarborough - Toronto)
They should probably just require everything on window ledges be checked to make sure it's installed properly
Nah, that would mean that they have to work! Better just ban everything/s
Load More Replies...I'm from Scarborough, too, and remember this was devastating. Better installation regulations would have been a better corporate reaction.
From Oshawa, and yeah this was bad when it happened. The whole GTA was pretty shocked.
Load More Replies...My parents live in Hamilton Ontario, and are elderly—and they had to remove their AC also because of this…..it is an older building and they really get terribly hot in the humid summer months
Why didn't they just make mandatory installation inspections by a safety officer after that?
Know all about that. We moved from our house to building a few years ago. Bought window a/cs. Wound up just having to give them away because company wouldn't let us have them. Had to buy those sad a*s portable units that are just about worthless. $2000 later stuck with those bloody things.
That actually sounds like a responsible reaction. Or maybe require any installations be done by a professional
The guy who stole my Amazon package. I used to have treats outside my door for delivery people but decided to remove all the snacks and the basket they were laid on.
A long, long time ago, when I was a kid, if there were a delivery from the USPS or even something like UPS, and you weren't home, they left you a note, and you could call or check a paper, etc., and arrange to either go pick it up and have it delivered another time. Around 1995 or so, I noticed my local USPS would just leave stuff at the door, and I complained, because I'd never seen that before. I said "Anybody walking by could just steal it?" I thought it was crazy then, and I think it's crazy now. In Japan? They leave a note. And this is in a country where I've seen people walk past MONEY on the street and not pick it up because it isn't theirs.
This is how it is in Germany still. If you aren't at home, they'll deliver it to a pickup station or hand it to a neighbour and leave you a note so you know where it is. Leaving a package just outside where anyone can steal it is actually not legal.
Load More Replies...Why stop doing something great for delivery people because a random person stole your package??
I had mine’s stolen, now I have to send all packages to my mom’s house ( she lives in a way better area)
Don't punish the good guys...this is what this thread is all about! God k own we need some kindness where ever we can share it!!
In Canada, if the mail carrier buzzes your apartment & you aren't there, they leave a parcel card & you have to pick it up at the local post office. If your live in a house, they ring & leave a card of you're not there.
Delivery drivers used to leave a note saying ‘your package is in X place’ if you didn’t answer the door. Then Covid happened and all of a sudden they’re still leaving the parcel but not leaving a note. I rarely leave my house due to disabilities so if I don’t hear a knock on the door or see a note telling me something’s been delivered it can stay there for days. A few weeks ago my neighbour knocked on my door to tell me I had a parcel. This was on a Wednesday, he said the parcel had been there since Monday! Please, delivery people, leave a note!
The sushi terrorist who licked things on the conveyor belt of the Japanese chain Sushiro for clout, making them stop doing the conveyer belt thing. (Tbf, he wasn’t the only one, but the one that comes to mind.)
Sushi-maru in my area still does the conveyor belt, but one of my favorite places now is Hama-zushi. Not the BEST sushi, but it's cheap. They changed their conveyor system so that now, when I order sushi on the little table i-pad, the conveyor brings it right to my table. I do kind of miss the old days of just watching what floated past, but I'll admit, the conveyor is pretty fast, and it's better in a lot of ways.
Hama-zushi is my go to sushi restaurant!! It’s cheap, and decent, but also usually near a Starbucks. 🍣 🍡 ☕️
Load More Replies...I’ve seen this on the food channels I watched, and was amazed of the style as I’ve never seen it before, but didn’t know this happened afterwards , WTF is wrong with people
In Australia Sushi Train still has circular conveyer probably bc no one here (yet) has been so damn stupid. Aussies would belt anyone who tried that c**p tbh.
that's such a shame. we have Yo Sushi in the UK, and I find watching the little dishes go round really relaxing for some reason.
This is in front of the chefs inside the conveyor belt? And they didn't stop him?
All these weirdos who ruin things for others by licking them should have their tongues cut out. Ok, not really but seems just.
THIS. I was so sad when I finally went to sushiro in Japan and they stopped the conveyor.
Whoever made it so we can't bring our dogs to the office anymore. F**K that guy.
I don't think someone specifically caused dogs to be banned in the office, it's just common sense. Also some people are uncomfortable around dogs and / or allergic so it wouldn't be fair to the coworkers.
Perhaps they were referring to the office they work at and not all offices.
Load More Replies...I'm that "guy". F*ck you right back. I'm there to work, not play with or be interrupted by your pooch. I don't care how cute it is.
I remember the doctor I worked with would bring her dog ( he was so quiet, mild tempered) she would leave him in her office with the door closed and had a sign on door that said Max is in there, he had his own’ doggie playpen’ , then when we got a new manager ( she hated animals) she complained to corporate and we never saw Max again
They allow dogs in my office. I'm not a dog person, but as long as they keep them quiet and don't let them make a mess or roam around the office, it's okay. It's better than my last job that allowed pets. The boss was the only one who brought her dogs, two big shepherd mixes and a Jack Russel, and allowed them to roam the whole building and bother everyone (business was in a converted house). Then I, as the person working near the back door, had to keep interrupting my work to let them in and out of the back yard. She was awful in many other ways. I'm so glad I don't work for her anymore.
Service dogs. Trained to be quiet and calm. A lot of pets aren't trained properly. It's a judgement call for pets, should be on a case-by-case basis.
In CA they made the emotional support pet laws very lax and I can’t tell you how many times I see dogs in public places that aren’t trained at all. I was in the market and one was tearing around crapping on the floor and their entitled owner actually demanded that the staff clean it.
Load More Replies...I was attacked by a dog and had to have 17 stitches. Our company and building we were in never allowed dogs in the work place but one gal who worked there at night brought in her dog who s**t everywhere all over the office. What a stench.
This is the thing people forget about when they drag their dogs everywhere that dogs don't need to go. I ADORE my dog, but he doesn't need to go to the grocery store and shed his hair or dander for all. And there are people who are terrified of dogs! It's just a matter of thinking of other's vs just doing what makes you happy at that moment w/o thinking how it can affect others.
Load More Replies...Yeah I'd not allow that as I'm highly allergic. Also, in my country, dogs were used by the police to intimidate POCs so we pretty much are terrified of them. Traumatised.
Pokémon cards at my school. Some Kid lost a battle and (as playground rules dictate) he had to hand over his losing card to the victor. However, this was a particularly rare card that had suffered a surprise loss when his opponent whipped out an even rarer and more powerful Pokémon to battle it. The kid never expected the defeat and had no intention of handing the card over; a fight broke out and teachers got involved. Being this was one of a multitude of Pokémon related fights breaking out at the time, the teachers (at the end of their tether) gave the boy a choice; hand over the card or Pokémon gets banned in the school…. And that’s why my school had no more Pokémon from that moment on.
In the US, playing "for ante" (i.e. betting one card on the match outcome, in all its form) is considered illegal gambling. WOtC initially included ante plays as a rule in the game, quickly switching to making it optional because it was hated by most players. Then, they banned it altogether when the lawyers they could finally afford managed to hammer some sense into Richard Garfield: the rule was making the game fall into federal gambling rules so much that places running tournaments should have had to apply for a gambling license. Garfield in 1995 scrapped the rule, made all the cards using the "ante" effects illegal in all sanctioned play and changed some rules so they would be basically useless in friendly games.
WOtC is Wizards Of The Coast if anybody was wondering
Load More Replies...I'm not great at losing but I do so with as much grace as I can muster. I really despise a sore loser.
Pokémon wasn't a thing yet when I was in school, but we seemed to go through a version of this every term with marbles, Pogs, Tazos, whatever.
Smart ones knew not to risk their best or favorite pogs
Load More Replies...We used to play Top Trumps but we always gave the cards back to the original owner
Kevin Spacey ruined Kevin Spacey movies for me.
Spacey was acquitted of all 9 sexual assault charges recently, so ..
Why is it that great artists, make all kinds of money. Even millions for movies, they are so good, why do they go for the children? What is sexual about a child?
Nothing, but I think a big part of it is that they like being in a position of power over the victim. For example Bill Cosby even drugged and raped women who had already consented to sleep with him, because it wasn't just about the sex; he got off on the power. Or at least that's my theory.
Load More Replies...Nope! I have to disagree on this. First, I don't let myself be influenced by mundane allegations. Second, all his rolls were usually that of a despicable person, which suits him even better now. Sorry, I don't belong to your cancel culture
Yes, you do. If not, why aren’t you holding anyone accountable for their actions? Are you a no-accountability type? People can just do and say what they want (anything they want) and it doesn’t matter because you don’t “cancel” people? Have I got that right?
Load More Replies...American Beauty suddenly feels all too realistic, except for the part where the protagonist *wasn't* sleeping with the teenage boy next door.
Even more so, because he could afford to pay an armada of slimey lawyers and private detectives, who tore the lives of his victims apart, so to dig up any tiny thing that could be used agsinst them. His victims couldn't. So be careful whatever you send out or every picture taken of you.
Not for me, fortunately. I still think he's a fantastic actor. Probably a terrible human being as well. Now you can downvote me into oblivion if you want because you can't dissociate and thus nobody should.
The name Lolita.
Such a good book tho. Scared the s**t outta me coz it was so well written
The level of education.... the author was Nabokov, the book caused a scandal in 1955. IT was made into movies, between others by Kubrick.
Little advice here - correct term is "among" not "between" :)
Load More Replies...And in the book, he’s the only one who ever refers to her as that.
Load More Replies...Her name was Dolores, which Humbert changed to the Spanish nickname “Lolita,” not common in the the US (but then he was from the French Mediterranean). Everyone else called in the book her “Lo,” including the other predator Clare Quilty. There’s still tens of thousands of women named Dolores.
Dolores = sorrows, pains (in plural). Origin = Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Our Lady of the Sorrows)
Load More Replies...Lolita was the main character's pet name for the girl he worshipped. Her real name was Dolores, also known as Lola or Dolly. You have that in opening paragraph of the novel. Look at this tangle of thorns.
I used to love playing the video game God of War. My ex husband is a spitting image of Norse Kratos. Now I can’t play it without thinking about him. F**k you, Edgar.
Maybe he's just a bug running around in a brand new Edgar suit.
oddly so is my uncle, he used to be hard a$$ as him too but being a family man made him a teddy bear that could kill
Well now I’m thinking about Kratos in a way I hadn’t before! I mean, he is very agile in battle…..?
The mf who put taxes on everything In the egyptian era they just took 20% of your crops as taxes and everything was without taxes Today you can't name a thing that isn't taxed.
And they want a piece of EVERY transaction. Like, I earn money, I pay income taxes on that money. I die. I want to leave that money to my children. I can't. The government needs its cut.
You’ve got it almost right. The wealthiest don’t want to pay taxes, so they pay politicians to shift the tax burden onto lower classes. Sales tax is a regressive tax that disproportionately harms lower classes, and the wealthy want it that way. They get the government to nickle and dime YOU so they don’t have to pay, and they get the added bonus of your being mad at “the government” instead of the obscenely wealthy people who don’t want to pay their fair share to support the system that made them rich.
Load More Replies...Taxes are the price for civilization. Money for equipment for even volunteer Police and Fire departments (much less Roads and Sewage) has to come from somewhere.
You're very lucky to live in a country where taxpayers' money is well spent, with neither corruption, nor increased tax efforts expected from the middle class
Load More Replies...Food. Everything you can buy at a store in the state of Delaware.
Nah, taxes would have been invented sooner or later anyway, because confiscation of wealth is just too sweet a way of getting rich by any sort of ruler. Exploiting the majority of the population is just too great a way of keeping them down.
To be fair, someone would have figured it out eventually even if that one poor Egyptian bureaucrat hadn't.
Some countries don't have personal income taxes though but I feel for u all who do
My city first introduced LIME scooters. A 16 y/o drove the motorized scooter at 11 at night and was killed by a truck turning right. The next day the city removed the scooters off the streets.
Tried to find where it occurred (likely Elizabeth, N.J.) only to find out there is a ton of instances of similar accidents all around the world, most of them with the scooter at fault. It's just as if riding a small, fast vehicle without lights or high visibility devices, with no helmet or any other kind of physical protection, with barely any training, outside of specific lanes and zig-zaggin on busy streets, is dangerous. Go figure.
It's not the scooter at fault, it's the idiots on top of them. Every. Single. Time.
Load More Replies...I nearly wiped out one of these a$$hats, I was making a left run and the little turd came zooming up between me and the kerb !
Coronavirus —> no more snow days.
yep. we haven’t had a break day since even with power outages because “we should have our computer charged before getting home”
But the internet needs electricity... How do they square that circle?
Load More Replies...Exactly. The school district I worked in had already been notorious for no snow days because the superintendent didn't believe in them. She left, and an interim superintendent was up for a year. We had our allotted 3 snow days and it was wonderful not having to go to work when it was -20°F, or with 14" snow and 2" ice.
I am waiting for a day when they invent construction company that can do the work online.
Won't be long, they already have robots in a restaurant in Japan that are controlled by people who are bed-bound and paralysed.
Load More Replies...That was happening before Corona with Telework programs. It was inevitable the schools would follow.
Snow day used to be a day off of school because of the amount of snow making it difficult to get to school so the kids got a free day off but now they just have to work at home on their computer if it snows a lot.
Load More Replies...They took away my kids snow days too. They called it a hybrid learning day or something like that. My kids would just clock in for home room, then do nothing the rest of the day. The teachers never cared.
Whatever slack-jaw f**kwit had their username set as "Han-Solo-Dies".
Use the TARDIS to go back in time and prevent it. Win-win
Load More Replies...I imagine it must be because Han Solo died in The Force Awakens. Someone must have had the username "Han-Solo-Dies" thus spoilers. Ruined the surprise.
Han solo dies thus this becoming a spoiler for it
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Load More Replies...Montana's lack of a speed limit. Back in the early 90s, there was no speed limit of some Montana highways. There was a law that you had to drive at a speed that is safe for the conditions. Well, a race car driver for pulled over for driving at speeds unsafe for the conditions. The ticket would have been under $100 but the driver spent thousands contesting the ticket, arguing that his speed was not unsafe because he was used to driving faster in races. After trials and appeals, the state added a speed limit.
Speed limits are good. Enforcing them is also good. Cars aren’t toys.
Two things people—-including grown a*s adults who are supposed to f*****g know better—-seem to be lacking these days.
Load More Replies...The speed limit is 80 on the freeways dropping to 65 near towns so still pretty fast. Also in MT your passengers could have open containers in vehicle til like 2005
There where no speed limit here untill 1955. But back then the cars and the roads probably most likely sat their own limit?
I remember going to Montana with my Dad. I couldn't wait to get my license so I could drive without a speed limit. That guy ruined it for me as well!!
Toronto Dominion bank used to have a free change counter. But some guy got upset that it miscounted his change and started a class action lawsuit. As part of the settlement the bank removed the machines and paid their customers restitution. I got a check for 8 cents.
I have had the bank tell me I had to put my change in the paper rolls myself—-even if I came in with a huge jar of it (like those really tall container for pretzels or cheese puffs at Christmas—-which they would then break open to put the change in the counter. FFS.
I used to work at the YMCA teaching children from 3-11 swimming lessons.The amount of times the pool closed because someone s**t in it or puked and had to be rechlorinated….. guys just don’t use public pools.
It’s more sanitary to to get p**s drunk in a kiddie pool sitting in warm p**s water in your lawn then setting foot in a public pool.
Is it true that in America some public baths add an invisible chemical that turns the water blue when peed in?
No, that’s a story told to children so they won’t go pee in the pool. And just like Santa, we all learn the truth eventually.
Load More Replies...Even though I haven't been in a public pool in about 15 years since I live by the beach, there is a good rule if you do go to one. Chlorinated pools have no smell. If it smells like chlorine or bleach, it means it's reacting to a high concentration of urine, sweat, and other funky bodily fluids.
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 8th grade, the final period of the day. The bell was about to ring in less than 5 minutes, until I hear this kid behind me go “what happened to the weekend packet? Seeing the teachers face go “ohh you’re right!”
I remember this one kid would get up about 30 seconds before the bell rang to walk to the door ( by the time 30 sec hits, he’s at the door to leave, the teacher told him he can’t do that, he has to stay seated like everyone before the bell rang, he didn’t listen, so every time when he would do this we had to stay an xtra 30 seconds, instead of making him stay, the whole class has to
What was the weekend packet? And what did it have to do with the bell ringing?
The weekend packet was the homework and op was glad class was almost over and it hadn’t been brought up till then
Load More Replies...I hate it when this happens… though I know I did it too in elementary school
Submarine tourism by Stockton Rush.
No, no! Please send more billionaires down to the titanic. I will provide free submersibles made of duct tape and cardboard. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have free invitations!
I read somewhere James Cameron has been to the Titanic wreckage more than thirty times. One person's disregard for rules and safety conditions wouldn't ruin it for others. Also I don't think Submarine tourism was a big thing even before this.
Especially since this was the FIRST deep sea diving incident after decades of safety. The Byford Dolphin incident was the only other one and 100% human error and lack of redundant safety systems
Load More Replies...Titanic is a grave sight we shouldn't be down there gawking at it anyway.
We shouldn't visit gravesites? So, tomb of the unknown soldier, napoleon's tomb--need to tell people to stop visiting these places? Tourists flock to place flowers on Oscar Wildes grave, Shakespeare's, Elvis...I suppose you make a point to avoid every cemetery. Should I not visit my Grandma's gravsite on Memorial Day? I guess we should also cancel Visit a Cemetary Day that takes place in October. Oh, and someone should tell the Japanese they can no longer celebrate Obon, because that often means visiting gravesites. So, I guess that goes for Day of the Dead in Mexico too. We lost a lot of people at concentration camps, but people visit those in droves every year. Humans visit gravsites all over the world, every day. But for some reason, in this case, it's considered gawking.
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Jared ruined the Subway diet.
I mean, the Subway diet was always a sham that was basically intermittent fasting mixed with anorexic tendencies, but he sure shattered the illusion.
Jared did you all a favor. Subway has to be the nastiest sandwich shop around. Local sub shops are so much better.
Jeez what subway are you talking about? In missouri most of the subways are freaking amazing
Load More Replies...I see what you did here LOL. For the downvoters: this is a reference to another post, about stupid recipe comments.
Load More Replies...He ruined my entire goddamned name, you'll get over your sandwhich.
*Gasp* JARED YOU RUINED THE SANDWICHES!?!?!? Your name is Jared so obviously you guys are the same person… /s
Load More Replies...I went to IU, worked at a Subway in Bloomington but not THE Subway he frequently visited. Dude just walked up and down stairs and stopped eating so much junk. He was such a source of pride but I've heard they removed EVERY photo and momento of him in that Subway
Irving Gould Ruined the whole computer gaming era. Back in the day Mac’s were for artists, PC for boring engineers, and Amiga was waaay ahead for gaming. Irving then mismanaged the whole commodore company that made the Amiga, and the whole home gaming was moved towards they way worse PCs. I’ve always imagined what gaming would have become if he didn’t ruin it for everyone.
I played the Commodore C64 with cassette! Monty on the run as one of the favorites!
Load More Replies...Hey now. I still have both my Amigas (500+1200) and they're great, but by 98 we had Voodoo2 on PC and things have never looked back. So maybe ruined gaming for 3 or 4 years. On the flip side the PCs power and flexibility meant that current consoles can exist, so PCs saved home gaming.
I had a 500, 600 and a 1200. My favourite games were Cannon Fodder, Valhalla and Megalomania
I had an amiga 1200. What ended Amiga was its lack of scalability and 3D games.
I always wondered what happened to commodore. My siblings , our mom, and I battled each other on Radar Rat Race. My all-time favorite video game. No one I talk to outside my family has even heard of it.
Beatles reunion ruined by Mark D. Chapman.
to be fair, the beatles were ruined long before that by yoko and john being arseholes, especially john to his son. just cos he could sing, it doesn't forgive how s****y a person he was
Yes, I agree John certainly had acted like an a**hole, but at the time of his murder he had matured. He was learning from his mistakes and making amends with Julian and also Yoko whom he had also treated abhorrently. Whether or not he deserves forgiveness is a matter for debate or better yet a decision for those he treated this way.
Load More Replies...Had Chapman not killed Lennon, The Beatles, or at least Lennon and McCartney, would have worked together again. They were friends again by the time of the murder. And the band did not break up because of Yoko. Sure, John made her a constant presence, even when recording, which had never been done before, but the guys had grown apart. George had quit and was asked to come back. Ringo had quit before. Paul was trying to run everything, and John was losing interest. Had Chapman not killed John, they probably would have done something together before George died 21 years after Lennon.
Bill Murray refused to do another Ghostbusters movie and was the single holdout among Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd who together owned creative control of the project.
I thought it was the making of another Ghostbusters movie (namely GB2) that killed Ghostbusters, not the lack of one.
The truth is, Bill Murray only agreed to do the first ghostbusters movie if the studio greenlighted "The Razor's Edge". TRE was then savaged by critics, and to be fair, they weren't completely wrong (though I like the movie). Bill Murray has even said since then that it was a mistake to make it a period film, since he wasn't familiar with the period, and he should have made it a contemporary movie.
Load More Replies...I can't get ammonium nitrate anymore thanks to Mr. Timothy McVeigh.
i can, easily. probably helps that my family are farmers though. its when you buy diesel and amonium nitrate that it gets complicated
The second Temple of Artemis. Way to go Herostratus...
Man burns down a temple for the sole reason that he would go down in history as the man who did this.
We can still decide to remember him as a f****r and shame him for eternity.
Load More Replies...There's a horrible histories sketch on that, it's very funny
Yes! Another Horrible Histories fan! I mentioned a relevant sketch in class once, and everyone just looked at me, sighed/yelled out/gave me evils (because they hated HH because it used to interrupt their cartoon binge-watching)... I thought of this sketch as soon as I saw the name.
Load More Replies...Would be hilarious if the non-Ephesian guy deliberately wrote down the wrong name just to fück with the guy :)
I remember when my history teacher told this story. He made a point of not mentioning the name.
That one guy who operated heavy machinery after taking prescription drugs has ruined it for the rest of us.
Whoever said why do we think of forklifts and cranes instead of cars and vans is very right!
Uhh.. I don't think this checks out.. You can use machinery if using most prescription drugs, it's only the ones which may affect your focus or thinking that are of concern (opioids, benzos, anticholinergics etc)
Yeah. That guy's the reason I can't operate my bulldozer on Quaaludes.
Load More Replies...Kombucha was ruined by Lindsey Lohan. At least it had to be altered and or labeled differently. She had an ankle monitor on and that’s how the powers that be discovered that kombucha has alcohol in it.
im pretty sure it would say on it has alcohol in it. otherwise someone would have sued them for getting dui
Might have been 0.5% which you can sell to anyone including minors but based on her parole that would have triggered an alert.
Load More Replies...Wow the actress playing Cady Heron for Mean Girls: Broadway ruined something?
Neil Armstrong. What's the point of going to the Moon if you can't be first?
No comments Be FIRST who writes "FIRST!" What's the point of commenting if you can't be first? I know you were being facetious, but geologically speaking, the Sea of Tranquility is, well, tranquil. There wasn't nearly as much to be learned there as the later landing sites. Plus, the later missions had more time on the moon. And can we say rover? Armstrong didn't get a hot rod.
I feel more sorry for Michael Collins. Went to the moon with Armstrong and Aldrin and had to stay in the rocket.
hopefully he knew that before, and not the commander says ten minutes before the decent... "Collins, there was some thing I have to talk to you about. I forgot to mention it before..."
Load More Replies...It's said that the experience changed his whole perspective. When he got back to earth he realised the people around him were truly the same: every one of them losers who hadn't been to the moon, ever.
The poor guy who had to circle the moon while Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon, and got all the glory.
Russia ruined any chance to have Russian language option on iPad pen. Was waiting to that one couple of years. Ruined to every russian speaker in the world
In a nutshell, grassroots reform movements that failed to "organize" or "trademark" which were crushed by someone who suddenly showed up on the news claiming to be the leader, or by groups of people claiming to be members, who suddenly say and do heinous things in order to discredit the group, to make normal people renounce the group in disgust, not wanting to associated with violence or hate. I've seen this tactic used a couple of times to destroy moderate groups that MEANT well, but were too popular, threatened certain establishments, and didn't protect themselves from being infiltrated, misrepresented, or taken over.
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Me. The coffee shop up the street allowed dogs and my dog got sick in there one day. Next time I came in, no dogs allowed. :(
I used to work at a fast food restaurant where we got free drinks (every food service place I've worked does this). The owners were very stingy though and to save on cups, they provided plastic cups for everyone. We just had to wash out the cup at the end of our shift. One day, they found someone's cup that hadn't been washed in quite some time. They would just hide the cup away in the break area and use it again the next day without washing, so it was very gross. When the owners found it, they lost their s**t, and banned everyone in the store from getting free drinks. A very, very stupid rule that caused a number of good employees to leave.
Darwin ruined Christianity for everybody. (I'll show myself out).
Russia ruined any chance to have Russian language option on iPad pen. Was waiting to that one couple of years. Ruined to every russian speaker in the world
In a nutshell, grassroots reform movements that failed to "organize" or "trademark" which were crushed by someone who suddenly showed up on the news claiming to be the leader, or by groups of people claiming to be members, who suddenly say and do heinous things in order to discredit the group, to make normal people renounce the group in disgust, not wanting to associated with violence or hate. I've seen this tactic used a couple of times to destroy moderate groups that MEANT well, but were too popular, threatened certain establishments, and didn't protect themselves from being infiltrated, misrepresented, or taken over.
Letter "Z" ruined by re... mentally ill bunker dolphin. 72cped1vdl...775384.jpg
Me. The coffee shop up the street allowed dogs and my dog got sick in there one day. Next time I came in, no dogs allowed. :(
I used to work at a fast food restaurant where we got free drinks (every food service place I've worked does this). The owners were very stingy though and to save on cups, they provided plastic cups for everyone. We just had to wash out the cup at the end of our shift. One day, they found someone's cup that hadn't been washed in quite some time. They would just hide the cup away in the break area and use it again the next day without washing, so it was very gross. When the owners found it, they lost their s**t, and banned everyone in the store from getting free drinks. A very, very stupid rule that caused a number of good employees to leave.
Darwin ruined Christianity for everybody. (I'll show myself out).
